Progress or Constraint?

Higher Education of Women in Iran: Progress or Problem?

Abstract Many scholars believe that investment in women’s education not only reduces the gender gap, but also improves and enhances the cultural and educational level of women in the society. Furthermore, economists believe that women’s education has a positive effect on their participation in the labor market. Education is amongst the most important factors which not only benefits the people...

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Informal care: choice or constraint?

BACKGROUND 'Choice' is increasingly pursued as a goal of social policy. However, the degree to which choice is exercised when entering an informal caring role is open to debate. AIM In this study, we examined the degree of choice and constraint in entering a caring role, and the relationship between choice and carers' well-being. METHODS Data were derived from 1100 responses to a postal sur...

Supertree Construction with Constraint Programming: recent progress and new challenges

One goal of biology is to build the Tree of Life (ToL), a representation of the evolutionary history of every living thing. To date, biologists have catalogued about 1.7 million species, yet estimates of the total number of species ranges from 4 to 100 million. Of the 1.7 million species identified only about 80,000 species have been placed in the ToL [10]. There are applications for the ToL: t...

Protocol Log Analysis with Constraint Programming (Work in progress)

Testing a telecommunication protocol often requires protocol log analysis. A protocol log is a sequence of messages with timestamps. Protocol log analysis involves checking that the content of messages and timestamps are correct with respect to the protocol specification. We model the protocol specification using constraint programming (MiniZinc), and we present an approach where a constraint s...